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Show CROW, NOT TURKEY. As a part of pa Thanksgiving the Deseret News exclaims that the Mormon Mor-mon Church Is still preserved! That may be an occasion of gratitude for the News, but in others the sensation sensa-tion Is one of surprise As Joseph F. Smith Ifl the head of the church and as he 'b ided thai he was I reveiator. he practically denied all reason for the existence of his church whose foundation is revelation or nothing. noth-ing. Why keep Ii alive, unless he was falsifying? The News, too, Is grateful that the church la stronger than ever. That is carrying Joy to a point of wild excess. That Is finding happiness In self-deception. That is being grateful for something that pretendedly Is. and really g not The church Is not stronger today than In Its past history. It would be a sad reflection on human nature if tho Mormon church was stronger, even with Its own adherents now, than when Its leaders were peeking peek-ing to obey the. laws Instead of to defy them, were peeking to fulfill the pledges Instead of to break them. If the Mormon Mor-mon church Is stronger now With Its own people than ever before we must all revise our opinions of that people. If the New a Is correct, Instead of being be-ing the earnest, honest, law-abiding, sensible people that the world has been trying to believe them to be. they are the willing dupes and accomplices of a set of grafters as Injurious and conscienceless con-scienceless as any In this country. We do not believe that the church Is stronger cither at home or abroad. All indications point to the fact that It Is swiftly weakening. Hundreds of Its people In Salt Lake City renounced It politically at the recent election. Thousands of Its people deplore and even abhor the flagrant practices of the leaders. The world is more generally aroused against the Mormon church than ever before in Its history. Its converts arc-few arc-few Its pretensions are 'ridiculed. Its leaders are looked upon as knaves ever since Joseph F. Smith gave his testimony in Washington. The Thanksgiving dinner of the News Is "crow" not "turkey " |